A Large Scale Public Experiment on Presence

Good virtual reality creates a sense of presence – the feeling of really being in the virtual world. But what causes presence to happen? We know that certain features of a virtual environment help generate presence, but other features can hamper or break it entirely.

This application is an application that members of the public can take part in. Soon available for Google Cardboard for iOS and Android. An early version was a submission to the VRJam 2015 for GearVR.

We have designed this immersive experience to be compelling and engaging – but we also hope to gather data from it; we want to make a very large scale presence experiment. We will make public our findings on what worked well in this experience.

I Want to Take Part

Samsung Gear VR (Note 4 and S6) is available via SideLoadVR. (An early version for Note 4 can be for here. Unfortunately this build does not work on S6, and we cannot sign newer working builds, so please use SideLoadVR if you can).